Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-11-03
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Syrup OF Figs

VA LBS
Is Natures own true laxative. 1t is the
most easily taken, and the most effective
remedy known to Cleanse the System
when Bilious or Costive; to dispel Head
aches, Colds, and Fevers; to cure Habit
ual Constipation, Indigestion, Piles. etc.
Manufactured only by the California
Fig Syrup Company. San Francisco,
Cal. For sale by A. Ii. Barber. 26y1
The Audubon society has three thou
sand members in America
The leases of eight of the London
theaters are now held by women.
A Jewish synagogue will shortly be
erected at San Diego, Cal. Mt cost OF
500, 900.
Ensenada, Lower California, now
has brewery, and is going to have a
university.
Ia the Carabaya valley in Bolivia
an immense number of rubber trees
have been recently discovered.
There are twenty-five real-estate
brokers in Visalia. Cal, town of not
more than one thousand inhabitants.
AT CharlottetowH, P. 4. l., there are
six brothers whose ages average over
az years, all of whom are hale and
hearty.
Samples of coffee cost firm of New
York coffee merchants about IS, 900 a
year, but they are resold at profit Of
nearly $4,000
American libraries are open an
average of over eleven hours day,
while foreign libraries seldom average
more than six hours.
j. r. G.. Pitkin, hitherto most known
as politician. has been winning high
praise in Boston with his lecture on
The Fools of Shakespeare.
Women are at present given to
poetry in praise of babies. 1t is mostly
serious, too, and is therefore not a
very encouraging sign for the babes.
Colonial windows may be made by
filing the frame of an old spinning
wheel with cathedral glass. The
window frame follows the outlines of
the wheel.
Farmers residing on the lower
Sacramento report that the scale-bug,
SO numerous and destructive during
the past two or three years, has almost
disappeared.
French toy manufacturers are COM
planning of the crushing rivalry of the
Germans. who are charged with max
ing false custom house entries to
secure low duties, and with initiating
French goods.
SO much trouble Is experienced by
Boston business men in handling tele-
phones and with district messengers
that they are talking of going back to
old and sure methods OF transacting
their business.
The amount of bacon used in the
American navy foots up over ono
million pounds per year. How the
fifteen or twenty men manage to get
away with so much is none of the bust
ness of foreign nations.
Isabella Flippcr, mother Of the
famous colored West Point cadet, died
recently at Townsville, Ga. She pos
sessed many fine traits of character
and joyed the respect and good
opinicn of all who knew her.
William l.. Miller, of Charleston, S.
c., has two immense iron shells, said
to be the first two shots fired at Battery
Wagner at the beginning of the war.
The shells were never exp!odcd; they
weigh two hundred pounds each.
The Pan Yam mine near Helena. M.
T., is one of the richest of recent
strikes in tho territory. 1t was dis
covered by John Waulshagan, lac
borer. During tie last two weeks in
August $4,000 worth of orc was taken
out of the mine.
N. H. Wilson, of MERGED, Cal, has
just received some Egyptian wheat
5000 years old, which was found in
the coffin of an Egyptian prince while
unrolling the mummy. Prof. Gilden,
of Boston, brought the wheat to the
United States in 1850.
The killing of squirrels, prairie
dogs, bears, mountain lions, wolves,
and coyotes is quite an expensive item
in the yearly budget of Montana.
From Jan. / to August, 1887, that
territory paid in bounties for the kill
ing of the same s96. G25.1O.